tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38101251662182493432024-03-05T02:58:23.133-08:00VINTAGE MTBVintage mountain bikes, modifications, dirt touring and riding.Mark Inglis Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14929083172396428679noreply@blogger.comBlogger153125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810125166218249343.post-27950357355665519502015-01-02T21:45:00.000-08:002015-01-05T21:55:03.268-08:00Year's end<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Well it was a pretty slow year around here at the blog thanks to a new baby and Instagram, but here are a some pics since the last post in August. Vintage MTB might not be the perfect fit namewise for the blog these days since my interest has shifted from solely old mtbs to bikes in general and fun bike projects. I still get stoked out by a rad vintage mtb, but I've been been riding everything and having fun with it all.<br />
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Here are a few from the Christmas ride:<br />
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Some folks drove in so we hauled gear and food in from a parked car. </div>
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Stopped for beverages at a little hidey hole. </div>
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Also went to France to visit family. The vintage city bike scene was off the hook!</div>
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notice the rear brake placement, early mtb designers wern't the first ones to try the chainstay mount.</div>
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Awesome CLB centerpull with brazed on studs.</div>
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Brake line goes through the seat tube.</div>
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Grizzled Ideale saddle</div>
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Saint Christopher, protector of cyclists</div>
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St. Christophor bell and amazing brake levers. </div>
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Weekender, failed at camping the first night, stayed at Montara lighthouse instead.</div>
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Spent the weekend riding out to Wildcat camp in Point Reyes, here are some highlights in no particular order:<br /><br />
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I was inspired to make my little rack partially from helping Steven modify this VO Randonneur rack a few nights before. It's hard to make out here, but these racks don't work on old mtbs because the stays have a fixed angle and they land right on the canti studs area. We just cut off the VO stays and brazed on new longer ones a little forward of where the old ones were and with an angle that gets the stays below the brakes. </div>
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<br />Mark Inglis Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14929083172396428679noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810125166218249343.post-56843372420693498452014-05-24T21:54:00.000-07:002014-05-27T19:10:08.724-07:00Ben's Rad Maruishi I hung out with a bud today while he readied his early 80's Maruishi Mountace MT18 for an upcoming tour. He got the bike as a frame/fork and did a nice job building it up with a bit of a Rivy style. Looks good to me. This frame has the semi dreaded 21.1mm stem/fork but Ben managed to find a nice Nitto stem for the job. I poked around a bit and it seems that Maruishi is still around and that they rebranded at some point for the US market and sold as Jamis. The bike is lugged and well made. Closer examination of the lugs and other details makes me wonder if Maruishi (or whoever made bikes for Maruishi) also made my 84 Bianchi Grizzly. The lugs/fork crown/cable stop/braze ons seem to be the same on the two bikes. The fork crown is no suprise because many Japanese bikes of that era used the same fake bi-plane crown but the other details really make me wonder. Whatever the case it's a cool bike with some unique details.<br />
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<br />Mark Inglis Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14929083172396428679noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810125166218249343.post-84073009373944805882014-05-04T21:37:00.000-07:002014-05-04T21:42:02.333-07:00I'm not dead It's been a while old blog buds, but I'm not dead. I've been using instagram more these days for quick ride pics, which you can find at <a href="http://instagram.com/macadamiandevil">macadamian devil</a>. Below I've got a few pics some recent tinkering projects and such.<br />
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Actually this has nothing to do with me except that I use it. It's the most recent iteration of the Superpac made by my bud Mark at <a href="http://heavyish.com/">Heavy</a> bags. I use this thing on every ride. I had to go without one of these bags for a while recently and was lost when trying to pack everything I needed for an all day adventure. This version has the improved feature of having the main strap pass behind the side pockets keeping everything pretty accessable. Mark also updated and beefed up the seat post strap and made it so that multiple straps could be used, great for when you take your rigid bike down a real kidney jiggler. </div>
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Also, Tamar's bike was in the shop recently and I got the chance to take a pic of this radical Nitto stem. Too cool.</div>
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These are kinda lame pics of something that I'm pretty pumped about. A couple of months back I got this new old bike and put an old campy 8 speed mirage kit on it. The new frame felt great but the campy cassette was a bummer; geared too high with a max low of 26t. I had heard that there were folks who used campy shifters and shimano cassettes but had never tried it myself. Turns out that Campy 8speed cassettes have the same cog spacing as shimano 7 speed. So I laced up a shimano 105 hub I had sitting around to a nice polished sun cr18, popped a spacer and Sram 7speed 12-32t cassette on, and voila Shimergo! It works nearly as well as the original, and might be perfect if I had the derailleur hanger in more perfect alignment.</div>
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I also got a generator hub for my wifes bike recently and tried my hand at making a dyno powered light. With help from fellow Dirt Owl Nick I got this funky old LED fashlight to work as a dyno light. I have a few little snags to work out before it's done but here are some progress shots.</div>
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<br />Mark Inglis Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14929083172396428679noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810125166218249343.post-21102750114147060862014-02-17T20:55:00.000-08:002014-02-17T20:55:14.093-08:00Old ObjectsFound a few old things recently.<br />
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This I didn't find. It's pretty jankedy, and good chance it won't work for long, still, I had fun making it. This is on my first ever mtb, a 90's Trek 930 with True Temper tubes. I'm finally giving it away to a friend after 15 awesome years! </div>
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Since I have a new baby, I have to do a lot of walking, she seems to dig it. I found this on the ground in a small park near where a stream daylights. Best I can tell, it's 30's Raleigh stem. It's almost like a fancy lugged stem but takes a funny size bar, something like a 23mm clamp area. Cool anyway and I may have bars that fit.</div>
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Then there's this thing. For the past couple of years I've been riding an old Basso. It's a neat bike but it never fit quite right, didn't fit big (32mm) tires, and the brazed on front der mount never worked well with a compact double. I chanced upon this Griffon recently. There's not much info on the web about this thing, but it seems that it was made in Santa Monica by a guy named Jim Holly. Can't be sure on the date but the frame came with a 7 speed rear wheel and was spaced 128mm so I'm guessing 80's. The build here was just everything from the <a href="http://vintagemountainb.blogspot.com/2011/10/random-projects.html">old bike</a>. Anyway I took it out for a decent ride today and was really stoked. I'm looking forward to getting some bigger tires on it though. </div>
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Just some details. Simple elegant lug work. Not sure what lugs they are, but best guess is Prugnat - any lugnuts out there know?</div>
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Also, understated fork crown.</div>
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Rad font!</div>
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Tire clearance with a 28mm tire, not bad.</div>
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The filing finish work on the campy long dropouts is nice.</div>
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Still room here too...</div>
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Clamp on cable guides are classy but not my favorite when running new cable housing. If this thing had a pump peg and another water bottle boss, it'd be near perfect.</div>
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It's fun to oggle beautiful bikes but in the end they are meant to be ridden! Here are a few from a rainy Sunday.</div>
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I currently have a funny set-up on my old Ridegrunner. Switching back to Jitensha bars and two thumb shifters soon.</div>
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<br />Mark Inglis Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14929083172396428679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810125166218249343.post-57022013986390744122014-01-26T20:31:00.000-08:002014-01-27T16:56:01.309-08:00Happenings. how tos.Christmas morning cabin. Diablo in the distance. <a href="http://nicklally.com/photos/index.php?yr=2013&m=12">Nick</a> got some nice pics of this ride.<br />
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Then two days later, I became a dad! Probably fewer awesome bike trips over the next year, but hopefully fun things to report in the shop.</div>
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Found this tire on the road. This kind of branding stuff cracks me up. I was wondering why all my tires were no good, but now I realize that they just didn't analize the vectors. </div>
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For whatever reason I've been working on a bunch of single speed or 1X bikes recently and I keep needing short stack chainring bolts. You can buy these things but I recently just tried to hack some from the normal ones. Turns out it's easy. Here's a little how-to. Below: the normal nut is too long.</div>
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Thread the bolt though the back side.</div>
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Once the bolt is in, clamp it in a vise. The bolt keeps the nut from getting squashed.</div>
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Then file it down to fit.</div>
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You can test the fit as you go. Once it's just shy of the crank you're golden.</div>
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Done.</div>
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<br />Mark Inglis Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14929083172396428679noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810125166218249343.post-88785580526187307852013-12-15T22:51:00.000-08:002013-12-15T22:51:09.594-08:005 speed againRe-fivespeeding a bud's bike. The bike had been a single speed towie for years, but he got his hands on an old 5 speed rear wheel, we added a cable stop for the shifter, a rear der, and a homemade chain watcher up front.<br />
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The brushed on Testor's paint touch up came out pretty well, I mean for a bike that is pretty thrashed that is.</div>
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This is the second one of these that I've made, but they've both been janky. No finish on it, just a little Boeshield T9.</div>
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<br />Mark Inglis Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14929083172396428679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810125166218249343.post-49566757174694992492013-12-05T18:46:00.001-08:002013-12-05T18:46:56.155-08:00Tam overnighterI got out with some buds and camped on Mt Tam this weekend. The next morning we rode some new dirt into Fairfax. It was the first camping trip for the new bike and it worked out pretty well. I changed the crankset to a 165mm to try and ameliorate my pedal strike problem, and it mostly worked out. In fact, the toughest climb which has some integrated stairs (Miwok from Tenn Valley) was not an issue on the pedal strike front and the bike felt better than others I've tried up the same hill. I suppose it could have just been that awesome burrito tho...<br />
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Gear set up was a little funky. I tried tying a stuff sack to the bars which cluttered up the top bar grip positions a bit. Still I dig seeing how others are figuring this stuff out and my set up is ever evolving. I'd need more storage if I was going for any longer; for this trip I carried no cooking gear.</div>
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<br />Mark Inglis Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14929083172396428679noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810125166218249343.post-26103148503458885432013-11-26T23:23:00.000-08:002013-11-26T23:23:05.666-08:00Rack Hack In preparation for an uncoming camping trip I was trying to figure out a front rack for the Dirt Owl. On other bikes I have used the Nitto Mini Front rack with P clamps and it's always worked out fine. I was about to switch one over from another bike when, just for shiggles, I measured the reach of the legs and realized that they would land right on top of the canti studs on the new bike. If I had the time I could have ordered a Nitto Mark's rack from Riv, but with the holiday coming up I wouldn't get it in time. Then I remembered this crappy old VO Pass Hunter front rack that I had that wouldn't fit any of my bikes that had any decent tire clearance. (It did fit my wife's Bridgestone RB-T, but she never used it) Anyway, it still wouldn't work on the new bike unless I just hacked it up, and so that's just what I did.<br />
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I cut of the legs, added another section of stainless tube with a piece of solid stock as an innner sleeve and brazed it up. You can see in this pic just how far forward the legs had to go to make up for the new lower position. For the moment, or forever, I'm just leaving the huge hole where the old legs were.<br />
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At long last Dirt Owl #1 is built and ready for testing. I took it out for a few hours this past weekend and, all in all, I was pretty stoked. I'm holding off for paint until I make some racks and I'm sure I won't want more braze-ons or little changes. I've also left the fork steerer tube long for moment but I'll cut of half an inch or so for the final build (notice the crazy tall stack of spacers). So far I also really like the 650b tire size. It still feels fast and manouverable, it accelerates well too. None of that stuff is a make or break thing, but it feels good, and I'm happy to get to try it out.<br />
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Panaracer driver 650b 2.2", velocity synergy rims, LX hub rear, old DT Swiss Hugi front<br />
11-34 9 speed sram casette, xt rear der, campy triple front der, Sugino xd2 crank 46/36/24<br />
old xt and avid v-brakes with tektro v-brake levers<br />
9cm Nitto technomic stem, 46cm nitto Mark's bar, DA bar ends, FSA Duron headset, yokozuna cables/housing, Newbaum's tape<br />
Cheapie seat post, brooks, old crummy pedals<br />
Most of the build was chosen just beacuse it's what I had laying around. I chose the v-brakes just because I happened to have a pair and randomly had the correct levers. The campy front der and xt rear were scored at a rivendell garage sale a year ago, and while both work, I would have chosen others if buying them new. The newer xt rear ders dont have barrel adjusters on them and when used with bar end shifters there is no way to set them up to index properly. Adding a barrel adjuster to this derailleur is tricky as it has a strange location for the cable housing to enter. The Campy front has to be canted to the side to allow for the 24t chainring up front; the chain jambs up underneath it otherwise. I'm also currently just using some janky old plastic pedals until I figure out something better. The goal here was to figure out a decent build without sweating the ideal build too much.<br />
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Plenty of room here for a larger tire in the fork, though I might have to switch to cantilevers to get clearence on the stradle cable.</div>
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Tire clearance out back. The frame came out good for huge tire clearance. Also here you can see the tread pattern on the Panaracer Drivers. So far I really like them, and they feel fast and grippy.</div>
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The only big mess up on the frame is the bottom bracket. I had a hell of a time finding bottom bracket drop numbers for other ridgid 650b mountain bikes. I ended up just basing mine on the Rivendell Bombadil but going a few mm higher. Turns out that's still not enough to get good bb height and lessen the pedal strike. I'm going to end up running shorter cranks to see if I can get better results. Currently I've got 175s on there and I'm gonna try 165s. Seems short but I prefer to spin anyway and use low gears, this bike's lowest combo is 36 rear 24 front, pretty freaking low.</div>
<br />Mark Inglis Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14929083172396428679noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810125166218249343.post-78181953610621598132013-10-27T23:22:00.000-07:002013-10-27T23:22:03.052-07:00More Tam Headed up Mt Tam again today. Since we live in Oakland, we don't make it over there as much as we should and Tam still holds a bunch of new territory for us. Luckily the rides on Tam make the tedium of riding throught the city worth it. We just headed up Old Railroad Grade and took a peek at the summit and headed down Eldridge Grade/Blithedale. I had never seen some of these trails and, as always, new trails are the best trails. I also managed to wipe out right in front of a huge group of hikers which is always fun<span style="color: #0000ee;"><span style="color: #0000ee;">. </span><u> </u></span><br />
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Heading down Eldrigde. A little bumpy for my narrower virtually treadless tires. I rode with a bunch of folks in Santa Cruz last weekend who were killing it on 28s and 32s but I guess I'm just spoiled after riding big knobby 2.3 inchers. I was envious of Mark's wide supple 2.35" small block 8's.</div>
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Lastly today I've got this weird thing. I recently took a headset out of this old Trek 890 to use it on another bike. I didn't end up using it because it was all plastic- the top and bottom cups and the fork crown race, what a terrible idea! Anyway that wasn't the strangest thing I found. Looking down the head tube I noticed that the vent holes were really big and in fact weren't vent holes at all. On some old treks the entire head tube is a LUG!? The "lugs" you see are fake (well kinda anyway) because the whole head tube/lugs is one cast lug. I guess the idea was that it made a cheaper faster production, but I've certainly never see it before. I lightly looked into it and there is a pic of one in the 1989 catalog over at <a href="http://www.vintage-trek.com/images/trek/Trek89Brochure.pdf">vintagetrek</a>. Weird.</div>
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<br />Mark Inglis Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14929083172396428679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810125166218249343.post-52004652391937750472013-10-20T20:20:00.001-07:002013-10-20T20:20:38.060-07:00Night ride<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Trying out our three different dynohubs, enjoying the night air. Mark Inglis Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14929083172396428679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810125166218249343.post-90872395399120822462013-10-13T21:15:00.000-07:002013-10-13T21:15:00.148-07:00Old friendIt's been a while since I posted something up here on the old blog and I think I finally have some postworthy things to put up. For whatever reason I haven't been taking my camera on rides or have just forgotten to use it when I should, but thanks for hanging in there and checking back occasionally. <br />
At the start of the year I decided that this was the year I wanted to
try and make a frame. I spent the first part of the year getting some
tools, reading manuals, and scouring the web for info on framebuilding.
It was slow going and at some point I realized that I wasn't getting
very far. For my birthday my wife surprised me and signed me up for the
frambuilding class at UBI. I was initally opposed to taking a class
because I figured that I could just buy a bunch of tools and fixtures
for the cost of the class, but after floundering for months the class
started seeming like a good idea. So now here I am at the end of two
weeks in beautiful Ashland Oregon with a new frame that I made. The
class was great and I feel like I essentially shaved off a few years of
screw ups by having experienced frambuilders walk me through the entire
process. <br />
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UBI, this is where the magic happens...</div>
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Here's the frame. It still needs hours of clean up but it's all there and mostly ready for parts. The idea here is 650b camper. It's got a 6 degree sloping top tube, a lotta room for big tires, medium high bb for clearance, longish 450mm chainstays, and 3 water bottle mounts. I won't really know how it rides until I get some wheels built and parts on it, but I'm pumped anyway.</div>
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Newbie silver brazing job. Pacenti crown, paragon canti studs, Llewellyn lugs.</div>
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Yup more blobs of silver here.</div>
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stars and ovalized chainstays</div>
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The seat tube is still untrimmed here to protect the lug point until I've finished clean up. I was happy how the wrap around stays came out. </div>
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The backend here with prebent s-bend stays. I was just guessing on the braze-on rack mounts here. I'm probably going to try and make a little custom rack.</div>
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Then there are some old pics that I should have posted a while back. An old friend and og Dirt Owl Jonny was in town in July and tricked out this Stumpy for a month in Mendocino and a tour back to the bay. He set up VO-Jitensha-3ttt knock off bars, big oury grips, nitto big back rack and a set of Uff da tires.</div>
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A little back heavy. He's also got one of Mark's <a href="http://heavyish.com/">Heavy</a> seat bags.</div>
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And back to framebuilding for a sec. I scored this tiny old craftsman lathe this summer that came with a milling head attachment. I've been using it to cut tubing to practice brazing. I got lucky and a Paragon frame block perfectly fits the small milling head vise. I learned in the UBI class that this set up will probably give me problems in the long run because it's so small that it is lacking the mass needed to keep it rigid enough to cut thinwall bike tubing. For now it's working great if I make light cuts.</div>
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Also saw this thing last month. It's an old Solex moped. These things are pretty funny, the motor spins and just rolls directly on the front tire driving the bike. Otherwise it's just a really heavy bike.</div>
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The same barn had this aawesome old vise.</div>
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More frame stuff coming and a build soon.</div>
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<br />Mark Inglis Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14929083172396428679noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810125166218249343.post-52876799840464963062013-08-09T21:29:00.000-07:002013-08-09T21:29:35.494-07:00Willow creek Just a couple of shots from a recent birthday trip. Mostly a country road ride, but we rode into camp on this great fire road that was mostly a smooth downhill gravelly gem. <br />
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Below, airing down for the dirt stuff. Three of the four bikes here are pre '89</div>
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<br />Mark Inglis Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14929083172396428679noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810125166218249343.post-19174604795817093302013-07-16T18:52:00.000-07:002013-07-16T18:53:28.973-07:00Little trippin<br />
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We got out this weekend for my wife's birthday, just a casual mostly dirt ride to Slide Ranch. Always awesome to end a ride at a warm hippie house on a bluff above the ocean. That said, after dinner and a hang, we spent the night in our tent serenaded by the sound of crashing waves and racoons feasting on the food we forgot in our panniers.<br />
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I changed up my wife's bike for the ride, nobbies, a 24t ring up front, new old xt rear der, and some sweepy back bars. Looks like a fake Hunqapillar (Funkapillar?)</div>
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Brian looking on from his speedy Legolas, all three MTBs in the pack are from 83/4.</div>
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An excellent pee spot</div>
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This is part of my most recent project. I've been hitting a lot of dead ends trying to teach myself how to build a frame, but some of the pieces are starting to come together. A part of me wants to throw in the towel and just take a class, but most of the classes cost about as much as a good portion of the tools you need to make a frame. I'm sticking with the hard slow way for the moment.</div>
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My attempt at a frame drawing for a big 9er camper. Turns out, it's hard to make a lugged 9er with the lug angles available (Correct me if I'm wrong here!). Plan 650B is stewing...</div>
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Thanks to Tamar I now have a copy of another out of print book about old timey mountain biking. As you can see the styles were pretty radical in '89. The book, like many of its time, has a chapter on mtb touring which stokes me out, because we are essentially still doing the same thing. I really delight in reading and seeing images from this pre-suspention kinda wonder years era of mtbs; the gear was still funky, guys dragged their feet through corners, and there was a sense of excitement that you could explore and find adventure by bike. Sounds good to me. You can flip through some pages <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=-AaKAh3cZZQC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false">here</a>.</div>
<br />Mark Inglis Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14929083172396428679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810125166218249343.post-36250079337298952792013-06-24T14:04:00.000-07:002013-06-24T14:05:37.138-07:00Mitchell Canyon - 750 - chain buddyGot out recently to camp on Mt Diablo, but took a new route up Mitchell Canyon on the east side. It was a helluva climb, but it seems like it's always worth it.<br />
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Riding out of Clayton another rider helped us navigate the tangle of trails in order to get to the head of Mitchell canyon.</div>
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Looks flat in the pic, but we are in granny the whole way up. I was dreaming of a new 24 toother up front...</div>
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Eventually we made it to the saddle near the campground.</div>
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We dropped our gear at camp and headed for the summit, but had to catch the fogset on the way up.</div>
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Some of what remains at the Green Ranch. I really love finding these types of ruins out in the wild, it is always a treat to see nature reclaiming these spaces.</div>
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Ridge running</div>
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I've been curious about these bikes for a while. It's a 1991 Trek 750. A buddy of mine decided to sell his old Bianchi and switch to something that would accept a larger tire and that could be generally set up in a more comfortable way, and this was the solution. It's pretty well Riv'ed out: technomic stem, noodle bar, xd2 crank, xt front der, Deore rear, and of course a Brooks. The frame has ample clearance for a big tire and a fender (if you go that way), interesting lugs, rack mounts with a mid fork, and True Temper tubes. Still it's no Rivendell, one downside we noticed is a highish bottom bracket so you have to have a tall stem. He's got it set up as a roadie but it might make a fun monster cross too.</div>
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That seat cluster is radical!</div>
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It's got a pump peg even.</div>
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Great tire clearance, these are 38s with plenty of extra room.</div>
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New xt der has the clunkiest clamp I've ever seen. I try not to get too hung up on aesthetics but this thing is a bookshelf!</div>
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Lastly, here is a nasty little hack. It's a home made chain buddy to run a single ring up front with multiple cogs in the rear. I've tried a single ring in the past with no support but it always drops the chain at some point. This bike is going to be a junky townie so I'm not going to clean it up at all, maybe I'll spray some Boeshield on it, maybe.</div>
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<br />Mark Inglis Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14929083172396428679noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810125166218249343.post-44268044816462565132013-06-06T14:55:00.001-07:002013-06-06T15:01:17.703-07:00Mobile Power: Homemade USB ChargerBefore heading out for a tour of the Pacific Coast, I hobbled together this USB charger to use with my <a href="http://www.nabendynamo.de/produkte/sondelux_en.html">SONdelux hub</a> on a 700c wheel:<br />
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Please excuse the mess; I threw everything together the night before I left. The next version will be much sleeker. It weighs almost nothing and cost me only about $5. The circuit I used is a [very] slightly modified version of <a href="http://www.arenddeboer.com/diy-hub-dynamo-usb-charger">this one</a> (which includes detailed instructions):<br />
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I got most of my parts from Jameco with a couple additions from Radio Shack:<br />
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* <a href="http://www.jameco.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product_10001_10001_178132_-1">Diode bridge rectifier</a> 100V 1.5 amp [turns the AC current coming from your hub into DC, far left on the schematic]<br />
* <a href="http://www.jameco.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product_10001_10001_804818_-1">2 Zener diodes</a> 15V 5W [placed end-to-end at the beginning of the circuit for overvoltage protection; apparently you can hit 100V with these hubs which would fry your regulator]<br />
* <a href="http://www.jameco.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product_10001_10001_609705_-1">2200 uF capacitor</a> [for power smoothing, I might add a bigger on to future iterations]<br />
* <a href="http://www.jameco.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product_10001_10001_33531_-1">.47 uF capacitor</a> [tantalum should be used for this and the next one]<br />
* <a href="http://www.jameco.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product_10001_10001_837505_-1">LM2940 regulator</a> [this is a low dropout regulator, which means you will hit 5V at lower speeds. You could also use an LM7805, but they waste more voltage]<br />
* paper clips and a binder clip [the heat sink for the regulator wouldn't fit into the box, so I just clipped some stuff onto it as a very rudimentary heat sink]<br />
* <a href="http://www.jameco.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product_10001_10001_94094_-1">22 uF capacitor</a> [tantalum]<br />
* <a href="http://www.jameco.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product_10001_10001_161024_-1">Female USB A</a> [there are four pins on it, the outside ones are + and - and the middle ones should be soldered to each other for some devices to charge]<br />
*Prototyping board [soldered everything on this, got it at Radio Shack]<br />
*Project box [also from Radio Shack, although, with better planning, this could all be a lot smaller]<br />
*9 volt battery leads<br />
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I added two new wires to my hub and wired them to my front rack, where I added the battery leads to be able to snap the charger on and off (or other things I make in the future):<br />
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I decided to use the the charger to charge an intermediary battery since I didn't want to risk frying my devices by giving them variable voltages when I slowed down or stopped. I also liked the idea of being able to charge anything I needed once I got to camp. I chose the inexplicably, but perhaps appropriately named <a href="http://www.ravpower.com/ravpower-dynamo-on-go-rp-pb03-power-bank-with-7-dc-tips-5600mah-black-for-smartphones.html">Dynamo-On-the-Go battery from RAVPower</a> which was able to charge my phone and mp3 player several times between charges [note: the first one I ordered didn't work, but the replacement seems fine so far]. If I wanted to charge my stuff directly while riding, I would still use the battery and charge my devices while charging the battery (they have separate inputs and outputs). There are some really small ones that would probably work well, like <a href="http://www.ianker.com/anker-astro-external-battery-backup-charger/product/79UNLPSTK-S26A">this one</a>.<br />
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And here's the thing all hooked up:<br />
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So far, so good, although I really only had to charge the battery once on my twelve day trip. I cheated and stayed inside a couple times where I charged my phone. But I was able to charge the battery to full with the charger and fill up my mp3 player and phone. More road testing to follow...<br />
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Here are a couple shots from the trip:<br />
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<a href="http://vintagemountainb.blogspot.com/2013/04/random-recentness.html">Mark's first braze job</a> is still holding together after some loaded trail testing. More photos on my <a href="http://nicklally.com/photos/index.php?yr=2013&m=05">photo blog</a>.nicklallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10088261395297234354noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810125166218249343.post-62238824614521074112013-06-03T17:46:00.000-07:002013-06-03T17:46:57.285-07:00O' Giant Rock of Marin<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
We snuck out for a little night under the stars last Friday. I almost camped here with some folks a few weeks ago, but work interrupted so I decided to make it back out and ride some new-to-me dirt on the way back in. We camped at Pantoll campground, which is a kinda lame car camping spot, but it's a nice ride out and the surrounding area is incredibly beautiful. </div>
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And his new custom sleeping bag fabric-rack. In lieu of a rack, he made a fabric carrier that straps to the seatpost and to the seat rails. It also serves as a seat bag support for his Carridice bag.</div>
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Here's just a loaded shot. I was carrying more than I needed for a warm overnighter, but I wanted to really test the new bag support. Included is a light pitch version of my MSR Hubba Hubba(no tent, just poles, footprint, and fly), Biolite stove, 3/4 pad, sleeping bag, liner, food, and warm clothes. We didn't carry any beer, but regretted it as soon as we made it to camp. Once we settled in we just decided it'd be fun to fly down the mountain to Stinson and grab a couple of cold ones and head back up before sunset. What an epic downhill! </div>
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Coming down coast view trail. From the campground you can stay on dirt nearly the entire way back to the Golden Gate Bridge.</div>
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After an expensive but relaxing breakfast at the Pelican Inn, we climbed out of Muir beach on Coastal fire trail. The trail is steep and there was definitely a bit of pushing here. </div>
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No pics for the rest of the ride through the Headlands, but we were left dreaming of a dirt route back to Oakland... </div>
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A very professional jersey with extra ventilation</div>
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A couple of pics from China Camp, really fun trails.</div>
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After an old stick-in-the-wheel-graceful-bail-out-just-before-total-wipe-out-instant-pinch-flatting, we spent the flat fixing time getting these pics of new/updated rigs. Here's Mark's modernized <a href="http://vintagemountainb.blogspot.com/2012/10/some-developments.html">Ridgerunner </a>with a new 7 speed 130 rear wheel, new Microshift rear der, new cockpit and Nitto Mark's front rack. The seat bag is a Heavy bag designed and made by Mark himself.</div>
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Next up is Steven's big ol' Panasonic ATB. He thought it was an '85 but I'm gonna make an educated guess that it's an '84. See <a href="https://plus.google.com/photos/102108090961907588374/albums/5230716685217475617/5230717297480726674?banner=pwa&pid=5230717297480726674&oid=102108090961907588374">here</a>. I'm not sure if this is a 23" or a 24" model, but one of the benefits of the early production mtbs is that they made very large frame sizes, rarely seen in later years. </div>
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Lastly there's this little thing. I'm trying to learn how to braze and decided to make this little rack just to practice sticking things together, and cutting and filing. It's not a thing of beauty nor was it intended to be, just goofing around. The idea was a simple seat bag support, or really I suppose a place to stack other camping gear that would then serve as a seat bag support.</div>
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<br />Mark Inglis Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14929083172396428679noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810125166218249343.post-48283563097595129172013-05-14T11:56:00.000-07:002013-05-14T11:56:19.018-07:00Forever 12Announcing a new clothing store for men, Forver 12, where we don't actaually sell clothes, we just ride our bikes in the dirt and splash around in creekbeds, and act like a bunch of 12 year olds. All fart jokes will be laughed at.<br /><br />
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<br />Mark Inglis Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14929083172396428679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810125166218249343.post-37527831332011267362013-05-09T18:58:00.001-07:002013-05-09T19:14:25.097-07:00Playing hookyThat's right I was playing hooky from work yesterday, but I needn't worry about getting caught by my boss, it was his bike we skipped out to work on. He recently had an unfortunate run in (literally) with a steel bollard and <a href="http://vintagemountainb.blogspot.com/2012/03/stumpjumpers-stump-jump-el-diablo-green.html">his '85 Stumpy</a>. And now it's <a href="http://vimeo.com/24051441">toast</a>:<br />
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Maybe someday I'll learn this brazing thing and give it a go fixing this old stumpy, but for now it will just hang around my shop as a kind of cycling memento mori. Lucky for us, it didn't take long to find a suitable replacement in the form of an 1989 Mb3 comp. It's luggy steel and not too lightweight, a bonus in this case as the bike's intended use is bike camping of the dirt sort, and needs to be durable. It's got some cool details too. Check out this Spinner Sci(?) drop out plug.</div>
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And here she is finished, a bad pic I know. My bud wanted Albatross bars so we headed out to Rivendell to pick up one of the steel versions and used a Nitto Technomic Delux I had sitting around. Often Riv's are set up with a long 13cm stem but we guessed and used a 10cm just because that's what I had, and it seems to be just the right thing at least for this occasion. Hoping to get this guy out to camp soon.</div>
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Also saw <a href="http://www.good.is/posts/in-1897-a-bicycle-superhighway-was-the-future-of-california-transit">this</a> recently, short but sweet.Mark Inglis Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14929083172396428679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810125166218249343.post-81063720384596176032013-05-03T20:02:00.001-07:002013-05-03T20:10:44.581-07:00Busy week endsI had the good fortune this past week to ride and camp with Cass from <a href="http://www.whileoutriding.com/">While Out Riding</a>. You get the sense reading his blog that he's a nice guy and as it turns out he is! An unexpected bonus was meeting other rad local folks who had all met up for the occasion. Everyone who came were real bike dorks and it was super fun to talk shop, try out bikes (that Krampus is insane!), and just to ride.<br />
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I also finally received some tubing and have started practicing brass brazing. It is much more difficult than silver, but a fun challenge. I'm still roasting the tubes but it's satisfying to actually get the brass to move. Baby steps.</div>
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<br />Mark Inglis Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14929083172396428679noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810125166218249343.post-91133644397634380122013-04-16T22:37:00.000-07:002013-04-16T22:40:43.177-07:00Half Moon Bay overnighter We managed to make it out for an overnighter this weekend. I really enjoy these quickly planned trips, especially when you can carry almost no food and just roll into town for a burrito and beer from the campsite.<br />
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We hit up Planet of the Apes on the way out of Pacifica. It was a green tunnel most of the way. All of the spring flowers and poison oak were reaching out for some more of that tasty sunlight. </div>
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So weird!</div>
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<br />Mark Inglis Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14929083172396428679noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810125166218249343.post-23106809186697179622013-04-08T23:49:00.002-07:002013-04-08T23:51:19.621-07:00Random recentness<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Springtime wildflowers are going nuts in Tilden.</div>
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Then there's this thing. It's my first ever brazing project and it's a whole two inches long. This was made as a kind of hack to make a Rivendell/Nitto top rack work as a front rack on a Bruce Gordon that only has the normal single hole drilled in the fork crown. I found some stainless tube at the local hardware store and some stainless washers, and a little brazing later had this. We ended up flipping it for the final installation for more clearance. </div>
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Yup there it is. The two struts are super stubby when used up front.</div>
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We used one through bolt for the struts.</div>
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And the finished rack. Let the testing begin! Time will tell if my brazing will hold up....</div>
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Then some Dirt Owls made it out for a sloppy Sunday ride.</div>
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Here's a closer up of a bud's 83/4 stumpy sport. Pretty much breaking all the rules of taking a good bike pic here, but it seemed lame to reposition it just for a shot mid-ride. He's got the Bosco bullmoose bars on it and it feels chilaxy, but still makes it out to see the dirt. Also of note here is a Bruce Gordon rear rack.</div>
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